Detecting Web.Config Authentication Mode

Question

Say I have the following web.config:

Answer 1

You can also get the authentication mode by using the static ConfigurationManager class to get the section and then the enum AuthenticationMode.

AuthenticationMode authMode = ((AuthenticationSection) ConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.web/authentication")).Mode;

The difference between WebConfigurationManager and ConfigurationManager

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If you want to retrieve the name of the constant in the specified enumeration you can do this by using the Enum.GetName(Type, Object) method

Enum.GetName(typeof(AuthenticationMode), authMode); // e.g. "Windows"